262 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



Come buy my mint my fine green mint 

 Here's fine lavender for your cloaths 

 Here's parseiey and winter savory 

 And heart's-ease which all do choose 

 Here's balm and hissop and cinque foil 

 All fine herbs it is well known 

 Let none despise the merry merry cries 

 Of Famous London Town. 

 " Here's penny royal and marygolds 

 Come buy my nettle-tops 

 Here's water-cresses and scurvy -grass 

 Come buy my sage of virtue ho ! 

 Come buy my wormwood and mugwort 

 Here's all fine herbs of every sort 

 Here's southern wood that's very good 

 Dandelion and houseleek 

 Here's dragon 's-tongue and wood sorrel 

 With bear's-foot and horehound 

 Let none despise the merry merry cries 

 Of Famous London Town. 



" Here's green coleworts and brocoli 

 Come buy my radishes 

 Here's fine savorys and ripe hautboys 

 Come buy my young green bastings ho ! * 

 Come buy my beans right Windsor beans 

 Two pence a bunch young carrots ho ! 

 Here's fine nosegays ripe strawberries 

 With ready pickled salad also 

 Here's coUyflowers and asparagus 

 New prunes twopence a pound 

 Let none despise the merry merry cries 

 Of Famous London Town. 



" Here's cucumbers spinage and frinch beans 

 Come buy my nice sallery 

 Here's parsnips and fine leeks 

 Come buy my potatoes ho I 

 Come buy my plumbs and fine ripe plumbs 

 A groat a pound ripe filberts ho ! 

 Here's corn-poppies and mulberries 

 Goose berries and currants also 

 Fine nectarines peaches and apricots 

 New rice two pence a pound 

 Let none despise the merry merry cries 

 Of Famous London Town." 



* Hasting peas, see page 143. 



